Common Filing Errors – Public Transit

Daily passes or tickets are not eligible. Passes of less than a month in duration are only eligible if they entitled you to unlimited travel for an uninterrupted period of at least 5 days and you purchased enough of these passes to entitle you to unlimited travel for at least 20 days in any 28-day period.

If supporting documents are requested, submitted passes should indicate the duration of the pass, the date or period for which the pass is valid, the name of the transit authority or organization issuing the pass, the amount paid, and the identity of the rider either by name or unique identifier.

If using ‘smart’ cards or similar electronic passes, it will be necessary to submit documents from the transit authority indicating the name of the rider, the number of separate 31-day periods during which at least 32 one-way trips were taken and the amount paid with respect to transit services used during those periods of time.